others will say no this is a time for us to turn the page. we have to reach out to a greater segment of the electorate if we want to survive as a party. >> tom brokaw, right now, a crippled city awaiting a snowfallen a deeply blue state. it erupted outside here. you're inside the studio on the third floor, what is your view? >> my thinking, a kind of sweetness about this for the obama campaign that goes beyond the magnitude of what the first african-american president has achieved. re-election when two years ago he was so soundly defeated in the midterm election, and a lot of people thought he couldn't recover from that because they were so motivated on the republican side. and the state that put him over tonight is not a state that is heavily populated by latinos, it does have an african-american population, but a white, working class statement. the state of ohio. no republican has ever won the presidency without winning ohio. and tonight, governor romney, despite all of his investment there, according to our projections, is not going to win